2004 Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics Gordon Conference

首席研究员埃尔斯顿和他的同事们组织了2004年戈登理论生物学和生物数学研究会议。会议的形式是九次正式会议，每次会议首先由会议主席介绍该领域，然后是两到三次受邀的演讲。除了正式会议外，还有两个下午的海报会议。会议主席和特邀演讲者由处于数量生物学前沿的老牌领导者和精力充沛的新研究人员组成。与传统一致的是，从生态学的空间建模到生物分子马达，各种各样的话题都参加了会议。这个主题的广度，包括从分子水平到整个有机体的生物现象，反映了今年会议的主题--“多尺度生物学”。被邀请的发言者是根据他们的专长和成就挑选的，同时努力平衡性别和少数人代表。这次会议的主要目标是聚集来自数量生物学领域的成熟和年轻的研究人员，分享新的方法，并讨论这一令人兴奋和快速增长的领域的进展。与会人数相对较少，会议形式非正式，为萌发新的科学合作提供了理想的环境。这次多学科会议对于确定快速发展的理论生物学领域的新挑战和新方向至关重要。许多研究生和博士后研究员参加了今年的会议。因此，这次会议有助于增加在数量生物学领域工作的科学家数量。

Elston The principal investigator and his colleagues organize the2004 Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology andBiomathematics. The format of the conference is nine formalsessions, each beginning with an introduction to the field by thesession chair followed by two or three invited talks. In additionto the formal sessions, there are two afternoon poster sessions.The session chairs and invited speakers consist of bothestablished leaders and energetic new investigators who are at theforefront of quantitative biology. Consistent with tradition, awide variety of topics ranging from spatial modeling in ecology tobiological molecular motors are represented at the conference. This breadth of topics, which includes biological phenomenaranging from the molecular level up to the whole organism,reflects the theme of this year's conference, "multi-scalebiology." Invited speakers are selected based on their expertiseand accomplishments, while trying to balance gender and minorityrepresentation. The primary goal of this conference is to bring togetherestablished and young investigators from the field of quantitativebiology to share new approaches and discuss advances in thisexciting and rapidly growing area. The relatively small number ofattendees and informal format of the meeting provide an idealsetting for germinating new scientific collaborations. Thismultidisciplinary conference is crucial for identifying newchallenges and directions in the rapidly growing field oftheoretical biology. Many graduate students and postdoctoralfellows are attending this year's meeting. Therefore, theconference serves to increase the number of scientists working inareas of quantitative biology.